Anna Findlay
{{Short description|British artist and printmaker (1885–1968)}}
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Anna R. Findlay (1885 – 1968) was a British artist and printmaker. She was known for her elegant colour linocut and woodcut prints of mostly outdoor scenes.
Early life and education
Findlay was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Joseph Findlay and Jessie Brown Marshall Findlay.1891 Scotland Census and 1901 Scotland Census, via Ancestry. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1914.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}{{cite book|author=Paul Harris & Julian Halsby|publisher=Canongate|year=1990|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present|isbn=1-84195-150-1}} She studied under Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and, for a period, her work was influenced by the style of the Futurists.{{cite book|author=Robin Garton|publisher=Garton & Co / Scolar Press|year=1992|title=British Printmakers 1855-1955 A Century of Printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives |isbn=0-85967-968-3}}
Career
Findlay lived in Cornwall, where she exhibited with, and was a member of, the St Ives Society of Artists.{{Cite news |date=1936-06-04 |title=St. Ives Society of Artists; Summer Exhibition at Porthmeor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cornishman-st-ives-society-of-artis/169657726/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=The Cornishman |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1933-06-01 |title=The Charm of the West; St. Ives Artists' Excellent Show |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cornishman-the-charm-of-the-west-st/169658044/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=The Cornishman |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}} "The oils of Anna R. Findlay have a distinctly modern note, and will be much appreciated by all who are inclined to encourage those who are straying from the orthodox in art and literature", commented critic "Penwithian" of her paintings in a 1936 show at Porthmeor.{{Cite news |last=Penwithian |date=1936-03-05 |title=Works by Five R.A.'s |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cornishman-works-by-five-raspenw/169658225/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=The Cornishman |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}
By 1938, Findlay had returned to Scotland.{{cite web |author= |year= |title=Anna Findlay |url=https://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/anna-findlay |access-date=4 April 2019 |website=Cornwall Artists Index}} She was also a member of, and exhibited with, the Glasgow Society of Artist Printers, which was founded in 1921,{{Cite journal |date=15 June 1924 |title=Glasgow |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZuNLAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Anna%20Findlay%20artist&pg=RA1-PA342#v=onepage&q=Anna%20Findlay%20artist&f=false |journal=The Studio |volume=87 |pages=342}}{{Cite news |date=1926-01-28 |title=Artist Printers; Exhibition in Glasgow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/glasgow-herald-artist-printers-exhibiti/169657597/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=Glasgow Herald |pages=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1943-06-17 |title=Kilmarnock Exhibition |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/glasgow-herald-kilmarnock-exhibition/169661007/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=Glasgow Herald |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}} and the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.{{Cite news |date=1923-12-04 |title=Exhibition of Arts and Crafts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/glasgow-herald-exhibition-of-arts-and-cr/169657852/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=Glasgow Herald |pages=14 |via=Newspapers.com}} In Scotland, she lived at Killearn in Stirlingshire{{Cite news |date=1941-02-18 |title=Provost's War Emergency Fund |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-stirling-observer-provosts-war-emer/169658626/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=The Stirling Observer |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}} and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1926 to 1942, with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and, on at least one occasion, with the Aberdeen Artists Society.{{cite book|author=Peter J.M. McEwan|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1994|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture|isbn=1-85149-134-1}} Findlay also had exhibitions at the Redfern Gallery and at Manchester City Art Gallery. Her prints were part of a show at the Brooklyn Museum in 1934, alongside linocuts by Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power, Lill Tschudi, Ethel Spowers, Claude Flight, Eileen Mayo, and others.{{Cite journal |date=14 July 1934 |title='Linocuts' Show on in Brooklyn |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_artnews_1934-07-14_32_38/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22Anna+R.+Findlay%22 |journal=The Art News |volume=32 |issue=38 |pages=14 |via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite news |date=24 June 1934 |title='Linocut' Art Exhibited |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1934-06-24_83_27910/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22Anna+R.+Findlay%22 |work=The New York Times |pages=28 |via=Internet Archive}}
Personal life
Findlay spent some years living with her brother James Marshall Findlay, an army officer, and his wife Cecile, at St Ives in Cornwall. Findlay died in 1968, in her eighties. The British Museum holds an example of her 1932 print, The paper mill.{{cite web |date= |title=The paper mill |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=702165&partId=1&searchText=Anna+R+Findlay&page=1 |access-date=4 April 2019 |work=British Museum}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds Findlay's The Bridge.{{Citation |last=Findlay |first=Anna R. |title=The Bridge |date=1930s |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/832631 |access-date=2025-04-05 |place=Metropolitan Museum of Art}} The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery has Findlay's 1936 print, Back Gardens in Snow.{{Cite web |last=Findlay |first=Anna R. |date=1936 |title=Back Gardens in Snow |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/collections/#/details?irn=43890&catType=C&referrer=/results&q=anna+findlay |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=University of Glasgow Collections}}
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Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Category:Alumni of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art
Category:Scottish wood engravers
Category:20th-century Scottish women painters
Category:20th-century Scottish painters
Category:British women engravers